European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july americans need More researcher says Seattle a More than 90 per cent of americans experience needless drowsiness and fatigue simply because they dont get enough says the president of the association of sleep Disord ers William a Stanford University is one of More than 500 researchers and physicians attending a we Klong meeting of the sleep disorders centers and the sleep research called the mysteries of the sleeping some 50 million americans Are Insom but i think americans Are Chroni Cally Dement we talk about things that make us sleepy a heavy a warm room or a Dull in these things just unmask our sleep if we were fully we  get most people need Between six and 10 hours a he i  put much emphasis on the Stanford researcher Mary Carskadon tracked a group of children into their Sec Ond decade of the 11and 12 year old children typically had nine hours and 45 minutes of wonderful sleep each de ment during the they were optimally Alert and he nothing made them As they became their sleep remained but they be came progressively indicating that they needed even More sleep prob ably about 10 he and nobody gets he the Lack of sleep that plagues society can be overcome by including angry teachers and Yel Ling Dement researchers said who usually want to sleep longer than they actually sleep More than they think they Art Spielman of new York univer sity said insomniacs should limit the time they can spend in if an insomniac spends nine hours in and a carefully prepared sleep log shows he typically sleeps Only five he should be restricted to five hours in the morning waking time should be kept Spielman the patient will sleep More and the time in bed can be increased in 15minute he the purpose is to regulate Spielman you squeeze the Low Grade sleeping time out if you minimize the time in you consolidate sleep and eliminate the Spielman said the regimen but Only if patients stick with it for in addition to excessive time in Spielman reports that some insomniacs have other bad habits an irregular bed time and rising use of drugs and alcohol and the development of a negative response to bed Pentagon probing f16 Price increases Washington up the Pentagon has asked the air Force Why the prices of f15 and f16 fighters have risen More than 40 percent in the past five a defense department memorandum builders of both aircraft do not dispute the Cost increase but they said monday the prices Are based on continuous upgrading of the planes As directed by the air the which have been produced since the form the Backbone of the air forces fighter James the acting undersecretary of defense for research and sent a memorandum to assistant air Force Secretary Thomas Cooper june 14 asking for a report by june 30 on Why f15 and f16 prices jumped percent and Between 1980 and this contents of the memorandum were made available to United press International by a private Pentagon watch dog the project on military the average unit flyaway Cost of the f15 and the f 16 have increased substantially since Wade if we had been procuring the same aircraft in each of these we would have expected a Small decrease in average unit flying Cost in constant unit costs of major weapons generally decrease once they Are in production and their research and development have been paid unless there Are design changes or big shifts in the numbers flyaway Cost is the Price of an individual plane with out research and development costs constant dollars is the Cost of the excluding in the first year it was the air Force had no immediate comment about wades in an attachment to the Wade said the Price of an As calculated in 1970 Rose from million in 1980 to million this the actual Cost of an f15 in current dollars is he the plane is built by the Mcdonnell Douglas of the Price of an f16 increased in 1975 dollars from million in 1980 to million in the memo in today an f16 is Wade the plane is built by a fort division of the general dynamics a Mcdonnell spokesman acknowledged the Price in creases and cited changes in production schedules and improvements in 1984 to the planes Central computer and weapons system display package As the reasons for the rising using 1970 Mcdonnell built 60 f15s in 1980 for million each and is building 42 this year for million he the spokesman the Price will jump to million per plane in 1970 dollars next when the air Force introduces an Al 5 the f15 was designed As a do fighting in not an attack aircraft capable of dropping bombs and launching Airt surface a spokesman for general dynamics said the f16 has been within or below target costs since production any Cost increases have resulted from increased capabilities which were directed by the air Force to meet new the spokesman if we were producing the same plane As we were eight years the Price would be generally the this ones of a photo Kenneth chief of californian Lions of melons because of pesticide con department of displays in Sac which is inked to More than Ramento a Watermelon with a sticker 100 illnesses in four states and Reading passed California Agricula All California melons now must pass an California has had to destroy Mil inspection and Bear such voice of America planning broadcasts to West Europe Washington a the voice of America is making plans for direct radio broadcasts to Western Europe for the first time in 30 the european audience we Hope to reach suffers from Many misunderstandings about America they Are eager to learn More about this a letter sent to potential freelance contributors the proposal came out of the Gas growing efforts to reach the so called Suc Cessor generation Rogene a Voa press described that Genera Tion As the group of people in Europe that did not live through world War ii and do not have the ties to the United states that their parents Voa programs beamed to other parts of the world can be heard in Western but the Voa has not developed special pro Grams for that part of the world since when they were discontinued for budgetary according to the sent to 500 radio members of the radio to news directors said the Voa will try to reach an audience hungry for information about american personalities and the unsigned letter said the info feature and entertainment programming format is being developed after extensive Market an attached explanation said Voa Europe must compete for listeners time and attention much the same Way american commercial broadcast ers fight for Waite said Voa Europe is basically in an exploratory Dave one of those at the Voa working on the we would like to have something on the air this but he emphasized that final details of the project have not been the new service will have a Small Perma nent staff and depend heavily on freelance contributors who will be paid or More for reports lasting three to five the reports May eventually be translated into other but Waite said she did not believe the languages had been rescuers Overlook injured woman up authorities suspended four Rescue squad members who incorrectly presumed a severely injured woman was dead and left her for 45 minutes in a wrecked officials Brenda Louise had been covered with a and a Hearse had been but a firefighter at the scene saw her head Johnson was rushed to a where she is listed in critical but stable Roger president of Commonwealth Rescue would not name the four workers suspended from duty without but he said they were experienced in Rescue its not a question of but of he Ive never witnessed anything like that in 25 said acting battalion fire chief